This is one of my favorite songs. https://fnfgo.io
Dear someone listening in the shadows
I only talk to you sometimes
And though I ask for help in riddles
It is clearer in my mind, clearer in my mind
Born of a sign that carries water
But in a month that's cold as ice
I know I question things too quickly
But I have never questioned if I've loved
Dear someone watching from the shadows
See me clenching water in my fists
the drops, they slip right through my fingers
But there's water on my lips, water on my lips
Born of a sign that carries vessels
But in a month that brings just ice
I know I question things too quickly
But I've never wondered if I've loved
Dear someone watching from the shadows
You've seen me lose all the water from my hands
I'm not a skillful water carrier
But the raindrops keep falling on my head, falling on my head
Born of a sign that carries water
But in a month that brings just ice
I'm not a skillful water carrier
But I've learned to carry love,
learned to carry love...
I only talk to you sometimes
And though I ask for help in riddles
It is clearer in my mind, clearer in my mind
Born of a sign that carries water
But in a month that's cold as ice
I know I question things too quickly
But I have never questioned if I've loved
Dear someone watching from the shadows
See me clenching water in my fists
the drops, they slip right through my fingers
But there's water on my lips, water on my lips
Born of a sign that carries vessels
But in a month that brings just ice
I know I question things too quickly
But I've never wondered if I've loved
Dear someone watching from the shadows
You've seen me lose all the water from my hands
I'm not a skillful water carrier
But the raindrops keep falling on my head, falling on my head
Born of a sign that carries water
But in a month that brings just ice
I'm not a skillful water carrier
But I've learned to carry love,
learned to carry love...
Lyrics submitted by flore, edited by Justintp89
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I think most of you guys are missing the point. This song is absolutely beautiful an done of the most sorrowful songs I have ever heard.
Yes, she is an Aquarius and is describing those traits, but more importantly she is expressing an incredibly strong sense of helplessness. In my opinion, she is most certainly talking to God/ a higher being, as someone before me mentioned. She is asking for God's help, and and she feels he isn't doing anything to help her. She has terrible luck in life and everything she does, she does wrong. No matter how hard she tries, she just can't get ahead. Life has dealt her a bad hand, in a sense... water which she cannot hold.
At first, she is actually "clenching water in her fists", so she has the water, but then it "slips slips right through my fingers." Later on, she tells God, "you've seen me lose all the water from my hands" and pretty much is asking why he has done nothing to help her. Everything in her life has gone wrong, and he has done nothing to interfere. He has just sat back and watched.
She references being as Aquarius, ( which is pure genius) "born of a sign that carries water, but in a month that brings just ice" she is saying she was doomed (in life) from the very start. She feels like she never had a chance to do right.
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